The document provides an overview of copyright law, explaining its purpose to protect creators' rights over their work and detailing the types of rights granted. It also discusses Creative Commons licenses, which allow creators to specify how their work can be used while maintaining some rights. Additionally, the document touches on fair use guidelines and the concept of public domain, outlining how works can enter this space and be used freely by the public.

1. This Photo by Unknown Author is licensed under CC BY
This Photo by Unknown Author is licensed under CC BY
COPYRIGHT AND
CREATIVE COMMONS
LICENSING
Copyright, Creative
Commons, Fair Use and
the Public Domain
BETHSHEBA KIAP FYG1 2021 WPU

2. COPYRIGHT & COPYRIGHT LAW
• Copyright is all rights reserved.
• Copyright Law insures that people who create the work (
written work, musical work, work of art, digitized work
ect.,) can own control and be paid for their effort.
• Protection is automatically applied as soon as the work is
done.
• Copyright law covers both published and unpublished
works, regardless of the nationality.
• Copyright does not protect ideas, nor does it protect facts.
It protects only the form in which ideas or facts are
expressed.

3. COPYRIGHT AND COPYRIGHT LAW
• Copyright grants the creator a set of rights to protect their
work:
oThe right to PRODUCE the work
oThe right to REPRODUCE the work
oThe right to PERFORM the work publicly
oThe right to DISPLAY the work
oThe right to BROADCAST the work digitally
• Copyright Law also protects the creator and others who might
be doing the same without payment, attribution or
permission.
• Violating copyright law is known as Infringement.

4. This Photo by Unknown Author is licensed under CC BY-SA
CREATIVE COMMONS
•Creative Commons some rights are reserved
•Creative Commons (CC) is an internationally active non-
profit organization that provides free licenses for
creators to use when making their work available to the
public.
•These licenses give permission to others to use the
creators work but under certain conditions
•Can be used to change your copyright terms from “all
rights reserved” to “ some rights reserved.”

5. CREATIVE COMMONS LICENSE CONDITIONS
Allows users to distribute, remix, adapt, and build upon the material in any
medium or format, so long as attribution is given to the creator.
Allows users to distribute, remix, adapt, and build upon the material in any medium or format,
so long as attribution is given to the creator. Adaptations must be shared under the same terms.
CC BY
CC BY-SA
Allows users to distribute, remix, adapt, and build upon the material in any medium or format
for noncommercial purposes only, so long as attribution is given to the creator.
CC BY-NC
Allows users to distribute, remix, adapt, and build upon the material in any medium or format for non
commercial purposes only so long as the attribution is given to the creator and shared under the same
terms.
CC BY-NC-SA
Allows users to copy and distribute the material in any medium or format in unadopted form, and
noncommercial only, so long as attribution is given to the creator
CC BY-NC-ND
Allows users to copy and distribute the material in any medium or format in unadopted form
only, so long as attribution is given to the creator.
CC BY-ND

6. FAIR USE
• Fair Use is any copying of copyrighted material done for a limited
and transformative purpose.
• For purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching
(including multiple copies for classroom use, scholarship, or
research) is not an infringement of copyright.
• Fair Use is a guideline whereas, Copyright is a law.
• Fair Use is flexible, Copyright law does not specify how it should be
applied.
• Fair Use is a defense against a claim of copyright infringement.

7. DETERMINING FAIR USE
When deciding whether an unlicensed use of copyrighted
material is fair, courts consider the following guidelines and
best practices:
What is the purpose and character of the use?
What is the nature of the copyrighted work?
What is the amount of the portion used?
What is the effect of the use upon the potential market for,
or the value of, the copyrighted work?
Did the unlicensed use “transform” the material by using it
for a different purpose than that of the original, or did it
just repeat the work for the same intent and value as the
original?

8. This Photo by Unknown Author is licensed under CC BY-SA
PUBLIC DOMAIN
• Public domain, refers to creative materials that are
not protected by intellectual property law such as
copyright, trademark, or patent laws.
• The public owns this work not an individual author
or artist.
• Anyone can use a public domain without obtaining
permission, but no one can ever own it.

9. PUBLIC DOMAIN
• Collections of public domain material may be protected by the
“collective works” copyright. For example, you may use
individual images within a collection without permission but
not the entire collection.
• Works arrive in the public domain in four ways:
1) Expiration of copyright
2) Failure to renew copyright
3) Dedication (the owner deliberately places the work in the
public domain)
4) No copyright protection is available for the type of work.

10. REFERENCES
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